Bryan Landers

AGI x Design @ndea + @arcprize. Podcast: Abstract Synthesis.

[Bryan Landers @bryanlanders]

Great talk exploring open-ended ness. My favorite from the summit.

[ARC Prize @arcprize]

ARC Prize Research Summit - @kenneth0stanley

On why open-endedness, invention, discovery are essential to AGI, but designing a benchmark for them creates difficult problems.

[Bryan Landers @bryanlanders]

Absolutely brilliant idea and execution from @guille_bar. I pitched in on the packaging design. So fun! 🎈✨

[François Chollet @fchollet]

I got a fun birthday present from the team at Ndea ❤️

[Bryan Landers @bryanlanders]

Got to MC this one. Great speakers. Fun (and smart) room.

[ARC Prize @arcprize]

ARC Prize Research Summit 2026

Last Friday we held our first ARC Prize Research Summit @ MIT in Boston

We enjoyed presentations from @stephen_wolfram, @kenneth0stanley, @sirbayes, @alexisfox and Alexandre Bouayad

Thank you to everyone who attended

Recordings coming soon

[Bryan Landers @bryanlanders]

@82deutschmark Ah, very cool. Thanks for that! Super fun to chat with them. Tim's the best.

[Bryan Landers @bryanlanders]

@kevinbanghe 🚀🚀🚀

[Bryan Landers @bryanlanders]

Cool to see this ship. A friend has been working on a foundation model for human behavior. Makes agent training + evaluation more realistic. Go, Kevin!

[Kevin Bang He @kevinbanghe]

Today we introduce Kairos 1: the world's first model built to simulate individual human behavior. Frontier models only understand population averages, ignoring the individual differences that make us human.

Kairos beats Persimmon, Astra, Fable, and Gemini across 13 simulation benchmarks.

[Bryan Landers @bryanlanders]

@FrancoisChauba1 Very sad. Losing a parent is hard no matter what the relationship, too. Sending you healing love. ❤️

[ARC Prize @arcprize]

Final call for applications to present at ARC Prize Research Summit in Boston on Oct 23rd

Application deadline: September 14th, 2026, 11:59pm anywhere in the world

Travel expenses will be covered for selected presenters

[Bryan Landers @bryanlanders]

Right?

[Mike Knoop @mikeknoop]

Apple announces a folding iphone that has been rumored for over a decade and it's not the biggest news of the week, by a long shot. Shows how far AI has come

[ARC Prize @arcprize]

GPT-6 Astra by @OpenAI achieves SOTA on ARC-AGI:

- Astra scores 63% on ARC-AGI-3, 99% via a new provider adapter harness
- It surpasses human performance on 96% of ARC-AGI-3 levels
- It builds the most precise symbolic model of novel environments we've seen

Our analysis:

[Bryan Landers @bryanlanders]

When the CLI thing was popping I wondered when people would remember this

[Peter Steinberger @steipete]

cli is nice, having UI visualizations and your team where you work is nicer.

[Bryan Landers @bryanlanders]

This fall in Boston - top researchers from MIT and around the world will meet to explore the state of ARC.

We'll talk program synthesis, neurosymbolic AI, world models, agent harnesses, reasoning benchmarks...and how we get from here to AGI.

Join us!

[ARC Prize @arcprize]

ARC Prize Research Summit 2026

October 23, 2026 - Boston, MA

The ARC Prize community comes together to share new work, challenge ideas, and advance the frontier of machine reasoning towards general intelligence

[Mike Knoop @mikeknoop]

Excited to start filling in the left half of this chart, especially with open weight models

[Bryan Landers @bryanlanders]

@FrancoisChauba1 @ycombinator 👀

[Bryan Landers @bryanlanders]

@4ldo9 @MLStreetTalk @ndea Yeah - they're brilliant. Fun conversation!

[Bryan Landers @bryanlanders]

@MLStreetTalk @ndea Absolute blast to have the GOAT on our pod!

Thank you for editing the multi-cam for us, too. haha

Here's to more collabs in future! 🍻

[Bryan Landers @bryanlanders]

Turned the tables on MLST's @ecsquendor to interview him on the Ndea pod along with his paper co-author, Jeremy Budd.

Tim's content has inspired the ARC world (and beyond) for years. His quality and use of AI agents in media production is unmatched.

Definitely watch this one!

[Ndea @ndea]

On the pod: @MLStreetTalk's paper "Why Creativity Cannot Be Interpolated" with @ecsquendor + Dr. Jeremy Budd.

A deep dive into creativity, understanding, neuro-symbolic AI, human-AI collaboration, and how systems capable of extending their own phylogeny could become creative.

[Bryan Landers @bryanlanders]

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[AfterLabs @afterlabsai]

Current models rely on brute-force RL training to adapt to new tasks and environments. However, intelligent systems should be able to learn on the fly in a sample-efficient manner, continuously refining their understanding of the world through their interactions.

After Labs is developing models with built-in adaptation mechanisms rather than treating adaptation as an afterthought. This new generation of models will start a new era of curious agents that may not possess all the world's knowledge but will have the crucial ability to learn in real time.

Today, we are happy to announce that After Labs has been selected as one of 10 AI labs to join NFAI and receive €3M in additional funding. This support will accelerate our mission to build models that continuously learn about the world. We will be contributing to open science along the way, so stay tuned and follow us on our journey to develop AI that augments human understanding of the world 🌍

[Bryan Landers @bryanlanders]

@afterlabsai Go go go